On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 16:50, John Summerfield wrote: > debian user wrote: > > > i would like to set up a ping server for my office. I however have > > not found a simple way of recieving a responce of "dead" or "alive". > > I am not to concerned about time etc? I just want to ping a few > > servers and then send the results out in a email to a few key > > personal. Right now I am doing "echo ping -c 3 server-name > file" > > for half a dozen boxes then i email the file to sevel people > > periodicly during the day. I would like it to be a little eaiser to > > read i.e. "dead" or "alive" after the server name. > > thank you, > > alex > > > > > Don't reinvent the wheel. Install mon.
>From the description above, I think the OP wants *statistics* about the availability of servers, rather than an alerting system for server failure. There are several good free monitoring packages, including "nagios", "big sister" and mon. Nagios: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagios Big Sister: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bigsister But for nagios at least, gathering statistics is not its main purpose. It can be done, but requires a fair bit of reading of manuals to set up. I'm not familiar with mon or Big Sister, so don't know how good they are at statistics. Regards, Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
